Abstract
In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Toni Morrison said: 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' In this paper, I explore, with the help of Wittgenstein, how the language of literature can be the measure of our lives only by exceeding language – that is, by showing what cannot be said.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | WITTGENSTEIN AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE |
Editors | Hanne Appelqvist |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 12 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781351202671 |
Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- philosophy of literature
- Literature
- Wittgenstein
- F. R. Leavis
- Tractatus Logico-Phiosophicus
- language
- showing vs saying
- enactment